Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:35:40 +0600 (ESS) From: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> To: Wayne Sprouse <wasprouse@earthlink.net> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: X-Windows Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910112129380.367-100000@localhost.cgu.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <01BF136B.5DEB66C0.wasprouse@earthlink.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Wayne Sprouse wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > When I enter into any of the X Windows the display is very bad. I have X Window, not X Windows (unless you have many of them installed :-) > tried multiple this out of The Complete FreeBSD book but the display is > still bad. The problems are as follows: > 1) Not all of the words or writings in a windows is displayed this usually happens when you're trying to input cyrillic in the XTerm, when LANG is not set. > 2) The screen does not refresh ?! > 3) It keeps defaulting to 8 bpp at 640x480 even though when I start the X > windows I type in "startx -bpp 24 -bestRefresh send us output of "startx > startx.out 2>&1" > 4) My video card keeps defaulting to 1 MB of memory even though I have > specified that it has 8 MB. what is your video card and what is your X-server (/usr/X11R6/bin/X is just a symlink to _your_ server) ? Is /usr/X11R6/bin/X a symlink to SVGA X-server ? I definetly seen some Diamond card with S3 chip. If so, try S3 X-server. If your card if an AGP one, you need to choose one of the PC98 X-servers. > > I have gone through the X86Config and specified my Monitors Horizontal and > Vertical refresh rates (30-70 and 50-160) and have selected my video card > and entered all the data for it (Diamond SpeedStar A50 8MB with the SiS63xx > RamDac.) Could you please help me with these problems please. I would like > that thank you in advance for all your help. > > Sincerely, > Wayne Sprouse > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBOAIDzuRxlWKN2EXhAQGgggL+OMNJ3F1Ge7j9OAbcsjozbt4Io1nmDY/y 2Rbdnqg0+r4mmxRvyxmAmRVrV1osRG2kywfXkzL+OkbRI1ygnKN1r8iq17QxlaEe k4llau8hR4ahxmfaFuSC4ZrjtPaCrpfw =EI7W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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